Explore: Tense (grammar)

In grammar, tense is a category that expresses time reference. Tenses are usually manifested by the use of specific forms of verbs, particularly in their

Tense–aspect–mood (commonly abbreviated tam in linguistics) or tense–modality–aspect (abbreviated as tma) is an important group of grammatical categories

In grammar, a future tense (abbreviated FUT) is a verb form that generally marks the event described by the verb as not having happened yet, but expected

the similarly named perfect) with the past tense and may thus also be termed the perfective past. In grammars of particular languages the preterite is sometimes

perficere "to complete"). In traditional Latin and Ancient Greek grammar, the perfect tense is a particular, conjugated-verb form. Modern analyses view the

Livy, 27; Seneca, Epistulae Morales 80. Comrie (1985) Tense, p.87. The evolution of grammar: tense, aspect, and modality in the languages of the world;

The past tense is a grammatical tense whose function is to place an action or situation in the past. Examples of verbs in the past tense include the English

The grammar of the Persian language is similar to that of many other Indo-European languages. The language became a more analytic language around the

The sequence of tenses (known in Latin as consecutio temporum, and also known as agreement of tenses, succession of tenses and tense harmony) is a set

common category of grammatical tense to indicate the time of an event. The term "spatial tense" is mostly employed in the grammar of Lojban (an artificial language)